When it comes to cloud services and software-as-a-service (SaaS), we’re all familiar with the usual players. But there’s a huge world of opportunity and available resources beyond Google, Dropbox, Salesforce, Amazon, and Microsoft. Source: http://www.zdnet.com

Mathieu Friedberg, CMA CGM’s senior vice president of commercial and agency network, spoke with Senior Content Editor Alessandra Barrett in March 2018 about the launch of a new customer focus to their service offerings, and the value in moving beyond price as the sole differentiator between ocean carriers. TPM 2018 Conference,… Source: http://www.joc.com

Bloomberg: Sources: T-Mobile-Sprint deal would value Sprint at about $24B; Deutsche Telekom will receive 42% stake and 69% voting interest in the combined company — T-Mobile US Inc. and its German owners are advancing toward a deal that would value Sprint Corp. at about $24 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Source: http://www.techmeme.com

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Three babies with a rare genetic disorder have been spared the worst effects of their condition thanks to an experimental injection they received in utero, researchers report this week in The New England Journal of Medicine. The success marks the first time a genetic disorder has been partially reversed by such a treatment prior to birth. The in utero injections treated…

Service management organizations are beginning to focus on improvements, principally on service delivery and the type of services that are being delivered. This is being driven by a shift in consumer demand from products to services to, now, value delivery. This is known as “value-as-a-service.” This one component – delivering value to an organization’s customer – is just a tiny part of providing excellent service. Despite all the efforts around…

With US truckload capacity tight, shippers are investigating any alternative method possible to get their freight off the docks. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com. Shippers struggling to find available capacity in the US truckload market due to the growing US economy and the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate are turning to intermodal and… Source: http://www.joc.com